Last week Tuesday fight
broke out in Olorogun Street, Odo Eran, Itire area of Lagos State where a twenty-one-year-old
stabbed a landlord, identified as Alawu Lateef, to death.
Lateef, who was a father of
three, had intervened in the fight, and asked the hoodlums to leave the area,
when one of them, identified as Lati Elepo, stabbed the landlord.
It was gathered that the
father of three slumped, while residents arrested Elepo before he could escape
with the other hoodlums. The matter was said to have been reported at the Itire
Police Division.
The hoodlums, numbering six
boys, had come from Osindero Street to meet one Balogun, who they claimed owed
them about N30,000. It was learnt that when the hoodlums did not meet Balogun
at home, they started to make trouble on the street.
The landlord, Lateef, who
worked as a panel beater, was said to have asked Elepo to leave the area with
his gang members. The hoodlum, however, stabbed him in the chest.
Friends and family members
rushed the landlord to a private hospital in the area, from where he was
referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, where he was
confirmed dead. His corpse was afterwards brought to the Itire division.
When Punch Metro visited
the area, one of his neighbours, who identified himself simply as Rashidi, said
Lateef did not have any business with the miscreants, but only tried to pacify
them when Elepo stabbed him on the chest.
Rashidi added that Elepo
and two other suspects were arrested by the police.
He said, “It was at about
11am when these boys from Osindero stormed our street. They are teenagers. They
are not cultists. They said Balogun owed them N30,000 which they must collect
from him.
“Lateef did not want such
commotion on the street. So, he came out to caution them to take things calmly.
The one who stabbed him was drunk.
“While Lateef spoke with
them, the suspect went to a shop of an artisan who sharpens knives and other
metals, grabbed about three knives and stabbed Lateef on the chest. Resident
arrested him and dragged him to the police station while other hoodlums ran
away.”
The landlord’s wife was
said to be too distraught to talk with PUNCH Metro as of the time of visit.
Punch
this is the reason some people don't help stop fight
ReplyDeleteA O NI GBA IKU ONIKU KU O. POOR LATE LATEEF. MAY HE REST IN PEACE. D BOY CALLED ELEPO SHOULD. BE SENTENCE TO DEATH TOO
ReplyDeleteOmase really bad
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